McLeod was a star on the Eustis High School football team in the early 1980s.

Court records give this account of his charges: McLeod was arrested in May 1988 and charged with raping a 44-year-old Eustis woman in her home. The woman, who was an acquaintance of McLeod, said she was thrown against a wall in her home and then onto a bed. McLeod, a rookie officer, was on duty and in uniform when the attack took place.

Hours after his arrest, McLeod resigned from the Eustis Police Department.

After being held in the Lake County Jail for about six months, McLeod pleaded no contest to a single count of attempted sexual battery. He also pleaded no contest to one count of stopping payment on a check, a $1,307.64 check to a Eustis car shop.

Prosecutors allowed him to plead no contest to the lesser rape-related charge in exchange for the probation.

McLeod was given five years' probation on the rape-related charge and six months' probation for the check charge. He also was ordered to complete a psychological treatment program.

In early April of this year, McLeod was arrested again, this time for violation of probation charges.

Arrest records said he was working for a citrus company in Lake County at the time.

The violations listed, and heard in court Monday, alleged that McLeod never completed the psychological program, failed to report regularly to his probation officer, never made restitution for the bad check, and failed to pay his $30-per-month costs for being supervised on probation.

Lockett presided over both of McLeod's court appearances - the original case and Monday's violation of probation hearing.

McLeod, held under $50,000 bail since his April arrest, was turned over to jailers and ordered transferred to the state prison system.